INTRODUCTION
Agility is an accounting package also and therefore accounting periods need to be created. These are normally set up at the beginning when a customer starts using Agility for the EPOS solution.
These financial periods are rolled over each year and they software opens both a current and next financial year periods when a year end is done.
From time to time Companies also change their financial year end and have to add more periods to one year to do this.
FINANCIAL PERIODS
WARNING: Only do this if you are sure this is what you need to do!
To navigate to the financial periods Nominal - Financial Periods - Period End Dates
Previous Year: Self Explanatory
Current Year: Self Explanatory
Periods in Current Year: Self Explanatory
Current Period Number is: This is indicated when the months are being closed down
Current Year Number is: Self Explanatory
Next Year End: Self Explanatory
Periods in Next Year: Self Explanatory
CHANGING YEAR END
In order to change the year end the Periods in Current Year needs to be increased so the additional periods are reflected below
Notice that the dates do not run in sequence and these need to manually adjusted by selecting from the drop down and choosing the next month.
First, change the Next Year End Date to reflect the new year end.
The dates will also need to be changed on the next financial period to reflect the change in the current: